WHEATLAND, Mo. — Isaac Chapple took over the lead on lap four and won the POWRi WAR Sprint feature and $2,000. It was Chapple’s first POWRi victory.
“It’s special,” Chapple said of winning a feature in an event named in memory of Hockett. “We’ve had this one circled all year. We watched Jesse Hockett when I was a little kid.”
Mario Clouser moved from fourth at the start into the lead on lap one, edging in front of pole-starting Burks by a few feet at the start-finish line. Clouser held the top spot until lap four when Chapple, who began fifth, took the lead coming off turn four.
Following a lap-five caution, Chapple and Clouser separated from third-place Rylan Gray by just over a second. Gray would work his way into the mix by lap 15, along with Casey Shuman and Ricky Lewis in fourth and fifth.
Chapple soon opened his biggest lead of the race, nearly a second over Clouser by lap 18. He took it to the finish from there, beating a late-charging Clouser by .487 seconds at the finish.
“I watched them rework the track and it really looked like the bottom was gonna be the place to be,” Chapple said. “We were a little snug early. It was a bit of a handful just to keep the wheels down. Luckily I was the first guy to kind of find it down there and shoot to the lead before too many other guys did.
“I started slowing down at the end. I was struggling to catch the lappers and it looked like Mario pulled beside me with about two to go. Luckily I just slowed down a little bit and did what I needed to do the last lap.”
Gray finished third with Burks fourth and Shuman fifth.
Ryan Timms won the companion ASCS sprint car feature.
The finish:
Feature (25 laps): 1. 6D-Isaac Chapple[5]; 2. 6-Mario Clouser[4]; 3. 06-Rylan Gray[6]; 4. 11W-Wyatt Burks[1]; 5. 24W-Casey Shuman[7]; 6. 41-Ricky Lewis[2]; 7. 79-Keith Martin[9]; 8. 16-Anthony Nicholson[17]; 9. 5-Jesse Vermillion[14]; 10. 15D-Andrew Deal[10]; 11. 93-Taylor Walton[8]; 12. 77X-Colt Treharn[12]; 13. 91K-Branigan Roark[22]; 14. 15B-Quinton Benson[11]; 15. 77-Jack Wagner[3]; 16. 13-Chase Howard[18]; 17. 2H-Luke Howard[13]; 18. 31-Tim Creech II[16]; 19. 74N-Natalie Doney[21]; 20. 15E-Dakota Earls[19]; 21. 93M-Josh Most[15]; 22. 21M-Michael Moore[20]